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  “What We Can Know“ by Ian McEwan: At the age of 77 McEwan has done it again! What We Can Know is one of the best he has written lately, ...

  “Old God's Time” by Sebastian Barry: It is somewhere in the middle of the 1990s in Dalkey at the Irish sea and widower Tom Kettle, f...

  “Here We Are“  by Graham Swift: Another brilliant story by Graham Swift, a tale straight out of life with just the right amount of magic a...

  “Victory City”  by Salman Rushdie: This is the enchanting tale, cleverly styled as the translation of an ancient epic, of Pampa Kampana wh...

  “Lessons”  by Ian McEwan: McEwan has always been a moralist, most of his novels engage in moral arguments and combine harsh reality with e...

  “The Singularities” by John Banville: Reading Booker winner John Banville is like watching a magician at work. Banville is such a talent...

  “Harlem Shuffle” by Colson Whitehead: Apart from being a social novel and a morality play about race and power Harlem Shuffle is also a...

  “Guapa” by Saleem Haddad: This is a is fluent, passionate and emotionally honest coming-of-age tale of a young gay Arab man named Rasa i...

  “Babysitter“  by Joyce Carol Oates: This novel is a tale of violence and abuse of the most vulnerable, children and women, committed by cr...

  “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”  by Taylor Jenkins Reid: Despite the hype and rave this book got in the past (2017) I was surprised ho...

  “Appliance“  by J. O. Morgan: J. O. Morgan has earned himself recognition as a poet, this is his first novel.  In this very compelling, hi...

  “The Melody” by Jim Crace: This is Jim Crace’s latest novel after his Booker Prize finalist Harvest . It is a a meditation on grief and ...